Twitter is popular for one reason and one reason only: People get a big stiffy from telling others that they "tweeted" and they feel like they're part of an exclusive club. "Oh I tweeted... I'm so proud of my self. This is just ginormous! I gotta tell my BFF". There's really no other reason for it. It's cute - you're like a bird up in a tree, muttering mindless crap. It's about as douchey as using air quotes every other sentence. Facebook somehow has the stigma of being for teenage girls bitching and complaining about their problems, and Twitter has this 'cool' perception. Lemme tell you, this is a bunch of shit. You may be saying "Hey, you have a Twitter account"?! True, but I do for one reason - so that I can see stuff that's written by people that I'm interested in; those that haven't seen the light yet. Come cleanse yourselves in the waters of Facebook (or Minnetonka!) and leave Twitter for Facebook today!
God Dammit, just let me see what he's linking to!!!!!
Typical Twitter post:
GuyIFollow: Wow!!! y.frog./boo/5y63c
WTF? With the normal Twitter app (I haven't checked TweetDeck and others) I have to now click on the link to see what they're talking about? Same goes for replies - I love seeing other's comments on something, why do I have to click to see that? What technology is this using, leftover code from 1985? Facebook gives me a nice little thumbnail to summarize the link so I can determine if it's worth my time clicking it or not. I gotta get back to my web surfing on What Would Tyler Durden Do for pictures of accidental celebrity snatch revelation, I don't have time to be clicking all of these dumb links from Twitter people. It's unbelievable that anyone would put up with this, it's garbage. On top of that, it's probably a bit dangerous to provide links to just random content.
The 140 character limit makes you be creative
What a bunch of horseshit. Twitter limits you to an old cell phone messaging standard, and people somehow buy into the thought that this is for people's benefit, and that it makes Twitter better? "Oh wah, you have to be creative because it limits you." Oh come on. That's like saying everyone should be speaking in Latin because it makes you be creative because everything is harder to read and understand. No, it doesn't make you more creative, it handcuffs you. Full control of word count can certainly make some morons drone on for months when they should have stopped about how their job sucks and how they wish for midget love, but that doesn't make you more creative. A bunch of third parties (yfrog, tinyurl) had to create tools for you if you wanted to link to something just to get around this limitation for posting long links and eating up your golden 140 characters. Unreal why people don't call this like they see it - ITS A PRODUCT LIMITATION!!!
The creators are idiots
Shortened URLs? Hash tags? Automatic URL shortening? What do these all have in common? None of them were originally thought of by the Twitter team. All of the new features have been created by the community doing it on their own first and then Twitter is slowly putting them into the real product. It's like someone took AIM and customized it. Nothing more... "But, they're making a lot more money than you". "Yeah, so is Ke$ha, but you're not going to call her a musical genius, are you?".
Anyone can see anything
There is absolutely no security on Twitter. You can view anyone's ramblings that you want. I happen to have a liking to crude humor (obviously) and dick jokes. That's all I need when I enter my next job interview:
Them: I saw on your Twitter feed that you said some horrible things about Khloe Kardashian
Me: Oh, I was just trying to be funny
Me: Oh, I was just trying to be funny
Them: Well, that's not the sort of thing we want here at Intertrode
Me: But, I can code pretty.
Them: Thank you for your time.
Wonderful.... I don't want anyone being able to see my random ramblings (and yes, this is on a public blog, but oh well).
So yeah, enough with that Twitter thing. It's a technical piece of shit. Use Facebook, block the people that are boohooing that their life sucks and enjoy.
